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A study led by researchers at the American Museum of Natural History presents the oldest known example in the fossil record ...

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Smithsonian paleoanthropologists explore how the year brought us closer to understanding ancient human relatives and origins ...

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An evolutionary biologist has challenged the long-held theory that the first humans came out of Africa. Dr. Huang Shi from ...

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Researchers digitally reconstructed the skull of the ancient Hippopotamus creutzburgi, an extinct dwarf hippo of the Greek ...

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